PYGMALION
by
George Bernard Shaw
Pygmalion is a great play writen by Bernard Shaw, before reading pygmalion i have never came across the name of Bernard Shaw and i have to say i loved his work.
Shaw have been an anti-
romantic all his life and has Punctured the age old romantic notations. he had an life force theory which is found in his every work and is explained best in Man and Superman.
The theory is that itis the woman who runs after men who can turn out to be a good husband to her an a good father to her children.
In this play he tells us a story of a simple girl of lower class in London who sells flowers the the corner of the road. On one rainy night she met professer Henry Higgins and Colonel Pickering and her life chances when both the men make a bet.
The bet is that Higgins has to turn Eliza Doolittle(The Flower Girl) into a refined lady and pass her has duchess.
This story is a mixture of Cinderella story and the story of ancient greek king Pygmalion who fell in love with the statue and with the blissing of aphrodite comes to life and then both get married.
But in the shaw story Higgins and Eliza do not get married as Higgins was incapable of love and was oedipus complex.
Eliza was never wanted to marry Higgins because she never looked at him in that manner but she do had a attachment towards him as he had lived with him so long.
Bernard Shaw has been criticised due to the fact that Higgins and Eliza do not get married like other romantic story because he has given it a subtitle a romance. But they fail to understand that Shaw is an anti-romantic and so is Higgins.
This play like every other old plays has some difficult words which people find difficult to understand but except that it is a good reading material.